Head Of DevOps

Our world-leading software client is seeking to recruit a Head of DevOps on a permeant basis. The ideal candidate will be passionate about automation, ruthless in eliminating manual tasks, and wants to promote and work in a culture of learning and experimentation. Job description and key responsibilities: The candidate will be leading and taking ownership of the administration, maintenance, upgrade and extension of the development tools and servers. The tools must support the full development lifecycle, providing reports and dashboards to track project progress. Leadership of the teams responsible for software production and coordination of software operations across all functions responsible for the delivery of platform technology, products roadmap and Maintenance delivery. Acceleration and extension of fully automated, continuous delivery pipeline in support of both on-premise and SaaS delivery, creating and maintaining automation and reporting infrastructures, and providing assistance to the development teams to automate application deployment. You will be responsible for defining the vision and roadmap and supporting leadership and the development teams to understand the benefits of the vision and drive the team. You will be a leader of evolution for large scale continuous delivery, working across the department to create a professional and progressive culture, ensuring development standards including application security and automated testing are agreed, reviewed and maintained. Skill set Deep understanding of AWS. Play an instrumental role in defining the strategy and designing architecture of the AWS platform, including the vision for source code management.Expertise with highly available systems.Experience dealing with major incidents, taking control within defined Incident Command procedures to swiftly restore service.Strong knowledge of multiple core development languages (e.g. Node JS, PHP, Angular 2, C#). A genuine interest in sustaining and developing expertise in development languages, tools and products is essentialFamiliarity with a significant number of the following: Cloud providers: AWS, Rackspace AWS source control and deployment services Monitoring and Alerting: Cloudwatch, DataDog, Elasticsearch, Kibana CD: Go CD, Bamboo, Jenkins GIT, Atlassian suite (JIRA, Bamboo, Bitbucket), TFS ClearCase: experience of very large scale complex software builds and how to optimise them Job benefits:* 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rate for less than 5 days per week)* Option to carry over up to 5 days per year (to be taken within first quarter* Life assurance 4 X basic salary * Subsided on-site canteen * Flexible Benefits: With offices in Cambridge, Northampton and Peterborough - The ONE Group's recruitment specialists offer unparalleled recruitment expertise across seven specialist divisions; Accountancy & Finance, Executive Search, HR, IT, Marketing, Office Support and Technical. Whether you are looking to advertise a job, or take the next step in your career, we offer an ever-growing employment network, which currently exceeds 50,000 people in the East of England and The Midlands. We pride ourselves in adding value to any recruitment experience, with the foundation of our success coming from customer service, expert knowledge of the local marketplace and our understanding of the significant value people can add to the workplace. This isn't just recruitment, it's: Recruitment as it should be. For more information, call us or visit our website at www.theonegroup.co.uk - provided by Dice APPLICATION SECURITY, AUTOMATED TESTING, AWS, C#, CLEARCASE, CLOUD, JIRA, PHP, SAAS